SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN 2017 CALENDAR

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SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN Let’s make 2017 a productive design department year. As the year has just started, Society for News Design has a special gift for you.

A distinct calendar highlighting worldwide illustrators with the most important events during the year.

The secret for an outstanding work in the planning.

Ahead of all important dates, events, anniversaries and commemorations; designers and art directors will have enough time to produce interactive projects or special infographics with all the time required to make it splendid.

DOUGLAS OKASAKI President TYSON EVANS Vice President PAIGE CONNOR Secretary/Treasurer SARA QUINN Immediate Past President STEPHEN KOMIVES Executive Director About SND The Society for News Design (SND) is an international organization for news media professionals and visual communicators – specifically those who create print/web/mobile publications and products. Our members art direct, design, edit, report, illustrate, make photos and video, visualize data – and write code.

DAN ZAKROCZEMSKI

Founded in 1979, it is a US-registered non-profit organization with around 1,500 members worldwide. Among other activities, we host an annual Best of News Design competition open to newspapers and magazines from around the world, and a yearly conference (rotating through various cities) that brings in visual journalists from all over the world.

www.snd.org

THANK YOU

A big for the incredible contribution from illustrators that donate their illustrations for this calendar

ADOR T. BUSTAMANTE DAN ZAKROCZEMSKI DEBORAH WITHEY EDEL RODRIGUEZ EDUARDO BAPTISTÃO ELLEN WEINSTEIN FÊ FERNANDO CARVALL JULIE M. ELMAN KADIR ÖZMEN LUIS VAZQUEZ MARTIN GEE NINO JOSE HEREDIA NURI DUCASSI RAMCHANDRA BABU

ADOR T. BUSTAMANTE

JANUARY 2017

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JANUARY 2017 SU 01 JAN. New Year - Public holiday u Haiti Independence Day General u Sudan 60th Independence Day General u Brunei Independence day General u Global Family Day General u Cameroon Independence Day General u Cuba Triumph of the Revolution General u 100th birth anniversary of Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist. Noted for his contributions to the development of weather prediction U.S. u 70th anniversary of the Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect. The first Canadian citizenship certificate was awarded to the Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King General u 25th anniversay of the ESPN Radio, the American sports radio network, is officially launched Sports u 15th anniversary of the Euro becomes the official currency of Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain u 10th anniversary of Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union General u 10th anniversary of the Adam Air Flight 574 crashes near Sulawesi, Indonesia, killing all 102 people on board.

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02 JAN. 60th anniversary of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange (later known as the Pacific Exchange) is formed when the San Francisco and Los Angeles exchanges merged. (It was sold in 2005.

It merged with the New York Stock Exchange in 2006.) Business 03 JAN. 125th birthy anniversary of J. R. R. Tolkien, British novelist, poet, scholar and educator. Best known for his fantasy novels The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings. U.K u 100th birth anniversary of Roger Williams Straus, Jr., American publish-

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er. Co-founder of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux book publishing house. U.S. u 40th anniversary of the Apple Computer, Inc. is incorporated Business 04 JAN. Burma Independence Day u World Braille Day Global 05 JAN. 100th birth anniversary of Jane Wyman, Academy Award-winning American film and television actress, singer and dancer (Johnny Belinda [film], Falcon Crest [TV]). First wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Entertainment 07 JAN. 90th anniversary of the transatlantic telephone service (between New York and London) become available for commercial use for the first time. General u 90th anniversary of the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team played their firstgame, in Hinckley, Illinois

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Utah, US Entertainment 08 JAN. World Literary Day Global u 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards

20 JAN. Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon 2016, Dubai Sports u Australia Independence Day u 67th Anniversary of India becomes an Independent Republic India 26-29 JAN. Extreme Sports Winter X Games 21 Aspen, Colorado Sports 28 JAN. - 8 FEB. Multi-sports Winter Universiade Almaty, Kazakhstan Sports 31 JAN. Nauru Independence Day General 31 JAN. - 04 FEB. Dubai Tour 2017 Sports

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02 FEB. World Wetlands Day Global 04 FEB. Sri Lanka Independence Day u World Cancer Day Global u Super Bowl San Francisco Sports u Waitangi Day New Zealand General u International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Global 6-19 FEB. World Alpine Ski Championships, St. Moritz, Switzerland Sports 07 FEB. 25th anniversary of the Maastricht Treaty was signed, establishing the European Union Business 09 FEB. Lithuania Independence Day 09-17 FEB. New York Fashion Week

New York Fashion 09-19 FEB. Berlin Film Festival Entertainment 11 FEB. Iran Independence Day General 11-28 FEB. Venice Carnival 2017 12 FEB. 70th BAFTA Awards 2017 London Entertainment 12 FEB. 59th Annual Grammy Awards 2017 Los Angeles Entertainment 13 FEB.World Radio Day Global 14 FEB. Valentine’s Day Global 15 FEB. Serbia National Day General 17 FEB. Kosovo Independence Day 17-21 FEB. London Fashion Week Fashion 17 FEB.- 29 MAR. Cricket: South Africa

tour of New Zealand Sports 18 FEB. Gambia General Independence Day General 19-25 FEB. Dubai Duty Free Women’s Tennis Championships 2017 Sports 20 FEB. World Day of Social Justice Global

20 FEB. - 04 MAR. Dubai Duty Free Men’s Tennis Championships Sports 21 FEB. International Mother Language Day Global 21 FEB. 70th anniversary of American inventor Edwin Land demonstrated the first instant camera (the Polaroid

Land Camera) at the Optical Society of America, New York. U.S. 22 FEB. Saint Lucia Independence Day 22-28 FEB. Multi-sports Winter Military World Games, Sochi Sports 22-28 FEB. Milan Fashion Week Fashion 23 FEB. Brunei National Day General 25 FEB. Kuwait National Day General 26 FEB. 89th Academy Awards - Oscars Los Angeles Entertainment 27 FEB. 15th remembrance of a mob set fire to a train carrying hundreds of Hindus from the disputed holy site of Ayodhya, India. Killing 58 people India

27 FEB. - 29 MAR. Cricket: Australia tour of India Sports 28 FEB. Dominican Republic Independence Day General 28 FEB. - 04 MAR. Paris Fashion Week

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Unite & Rebel, a creative conference focused on innovation, risk-taking and team building in media hosted by the Society for News Design. Join us April 19–21 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Register here: http://www.snd.org/clt2017/ 01 MAR. Zero Discrimination Day Global u 70th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund began operating Business 02 MAR. 30th anniversary of Apple released the Macintosh II personal computer – the first Apple computer to feature colour graphics Business u 25th anniversary of following former Soviet republics joined the United Nations: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. San Marino also joined on that date General u Morocco Independence Day General General 03 MAR. Bulgaria Liberation Day u World Wildlife Day Global 03-04 MAR. ITU World Triathlon Abu Dhabi Sports 04 MAR. 60th anniversary of the Standard & Poor 500 stock market index (commonly known as the S&P 500) was introduced. Business 06 MAR. Ghana 60th Independence

Day (Gold Coast declares independence from the UK and change the name to Ghana) General 07 MAR. 100th anniversary of the world’s first jazz record released: Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. (The spelling of jass was changed to jazz later that year.) Entertainment 08 MAR. International Women’s Day u 300th death anniversary of Abraham Darby, British ironmaster. The first person to smelt iron using coke rather than charcoal – a major step forward in the production of iron for the Industrial Revolution. U.K. u 100th anniversary of the New York Stock Exchange was founded Business 09 MAR. 175th anniversary of the first documented discovery of gold in California, USA – at Rancho San Francisco.

This led to a small gold rush, with about 2,000 people coming to mine gold Business

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Joshua Tree by the Irish rock band U2 released Entertainment 9-22 MAR. Baseball World Baseball Classic USA Sports 10 MAR. 150th birth anniversary of Lillian Wald, pioneering American nurse and social worker. Regarded as the founder of American community nursing. Founder of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. U.S. 11-21 MAR. 90th anniversary of the Roxy Theater opened on West 50th Street, New York City Entertainment 12 MAR. 25th anniversary of Mauritius becomes a republic. Governor General Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo served as interim President until an election was held in June General 14-24 MAR. Multi-sports Special Olympics World Winter Games Sports 16 MAR. 60th anniversary of the Suez Crisis: Israel withdrew the last of its forces from the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt 16-18 MAR. Dubai International Kite

Festival 2017 Sports 17 MAR. Saint Patrick’s Day Ireland 20 MAR. Vernal Equinox Global u Tunisia Independence Day General u International Day of Happiness Global 21 MAR. International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Global u World Poetry Day Global u International Day of Nowruz Global u World Down Syndrome Day Global u International Day of Forest and the Tree Global u Mother’s Day 22 MAR. World Water Day Global u World Meteorological Day Global u Pakistan National Day General 23-26 MAR. Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix 2017 Sports 24 MAR. World Tuberculosis Day Global u International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims 25 MAR. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the

Transatlantic Slave Trade Global u International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Global u Earth Hour at 8.30pm to 9.30pm u Horse Racing - Dubai World Cup Sports 26 MAR. Bangladesh Independence Day 27 MAR. Easter Sunday Global u 40th rememberance of the Tenerife airport disaster. Two Boeing 747 jumbo jets collided on the runway in heavy fog.

583 people were killed – the deadliest accident in aviation history

APRIL 2017

NURI DUCASSI

01 APR. Iran Republic Day General u Fool’s Day Global u 150th anniversary of the first municipal election in the USA in which blacks were eligible to vote was held in Tuscumbia, Alabama. U.S. u 150th anniversary of the International Exhibition (World’s Fair) of 1867 was held in Paris, France General u 50th anniversary of the United States Department of Transportation begin operating U.S. 02 APR. World Autism Awareness Day 02-04 APR. 13th International Property Show 2017 Business 03-09 APR. Golf Masters Augusta, USA 04 APR. International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action Global u Senegal Independence Day u Hungary Independence Day 05-07 APR. World Economic Forum on Latin America Buenos Aires Business 06 APR. 70th anniversary of the first Tony Awards were presented, New York City Entertainment 06 APR. 60th anniversary of the Olympic Airlines was founded in Greece (as Olympic Airways) by shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis Entertainment 07 APR. Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide u World Health Day Global u 150th anniversary of the Johnson C. Smith University established in Charlotte, North Carolina U.S. u 70th death anniversary of Death of Henry Ford, American industrialist, car manufacturer and inventor. Founder of the Ford Motor Company Business u 50th anniversary of Israel invaded Syria – one of the key events that led to the Six-Day War in June General 08 APR. Horse Racing: Grand National Aintree Racecourse, Liverpool Sports 09 APR. 50th anniversary of the Boeing 737 made its first flight. U.S. 05 APRIL - 21 MAY 2017 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) begins, India Sports

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09 APRIL Chinese Grand Prix 2017, Shanghai Sports 10 APR. 150th birth anniversary of George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet, artist and mystic Ireland General 11 APR. 100th birth anniversary of David Westheimer, American novelist.

Best known for Von Ryan’s Express 12 APR. 125th anniversary of the first truly portable typewriter, the Blickensderfer typewriter, was patented by George Blickensderfer of Stamford, Connecticut u 25th anniversary of Disneyland Paris (formerly known as Euro Disney) opened in France General 12-14 APR. Cycling: World Track Championships Hong Kong Sports 13 APR. 100th birth anniversary of Robert Orville Anderson, American oil tycoon and philanthropist. Founder and chairman of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. U.S. u 20th anniversary of American golfer Tiger Woods, aged 21, became the

youngest player to win the US Masters championship and he set a new tournament record. Sports 16 APR. Bahrain Grand Prix 2017 Sports u 150th birth anniversary of Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (Wright brothers) who achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled plane flight. U.S. u 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin return to Russia after 17 years in exile in Siberia and Western Europe. General u 100th birth anniversary of Barry Nelson, American film and television actor.

The first actor to play James Bond on screen Entertainment 17 APR. 70th Syria Independence Day u 121st Boston Marathon Sports 18 APR. Zimbabwe Independence Day 21 APR. Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 90th birthday London General 21-30 APR. Multi-sports World Masters Auckland Sports Games (Summer) 22 APR. Earth Day Global

23-24 APR. Shakespeare 400 - 2016 commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare 23 APR. World Book and Copyright Day u English Language Day Global 23-30 APR. World Immunization Week 24 APR. Isra Wal Mairaj UAE / Gulf / M. East u 60th anniversary of the Suez Canal fully reopened to shipping following the Suez Crisis of October – November 1956 Egypt General 24 APR. 50th death anniversary of Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut.

Killed in Soyuz 1 when it crashed on re-entry due to a parachute failure.

Russia General 25 APR. ANZAC Day New Zealand u World Malaria Day Global u General 100th birth anniversary of Ella Fitzgerald, world famous American jazz singer Entertainment 26 APR. World Intellectual Property Day Global General u General Union Day (Tanganyika and

Zanzibar) Tanzania u Sierra Leone Independence Day General 27 APR.Togo Independence Day u Administrative Professionals Day (Secretaries’ Day) Global 28 APR. World Day for Safety and Health at Work General 28-30 APR. Russian Grand Prix 2017 Sochi/Russia Sports 29 APR. Japan Independence Day u Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare Global 30 APR. International Jazz Day Global u Netherlands Independence Day

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17-28 MAY Cannes Film Festival 2017, France Entertainment 19-21 MAY World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa Dead Sea, Jordan Business 20 MAY Cameroon National Day General 20 MAY Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon Global 21 MAY 2017 IPL Cricket Final 2017, India Sports 21-23 MAY World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development Global 21 MAY - 11 June 2017 Tennis: French Open 2017, Paris Sports 22 MAY 2017 International Day for Biological Diversity Global General u Unification Day, Yemen General 23 MAY 2017 International Day of End

of Obstetric Fistula Global 24 MAY 2017 Eritrea Independence Day 24 MAY - 08 AUG. Cricket: South Africa tour of England United Kingdom Sports 25 MAY 2017 Jordan Independence Day 27 MAY Ramadan begins Global 25-28 MAY Monaco Grand Prix 2017, Monaco Sports 26 MAY Independence Day Georgia 27 MAY Football: FA Cup final Wembley Stadium, London Sports 27 MAY 80th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge was officially opened. It links San Francisco and Marin County in California U.S. 28 MAY - 11 JUN. Tennis: French Open Paris France Sports 29 MAY International Day of UN Peacekeepers Global

29 MAY 100th birth anniversary of John F. Kennedy, President of the United States United States U.S. 30 MAY Anniversary of Jordan and Egypt signed a joint defence agreement in case of a conflict with Israel Egypt / Jordan General 31 MAY World No-Tobacco Day Global 31 MAY South Africa Independence Day

JUNE 2017

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01 JUN. Global Day of Parents Global u 30th death anniversary of Rashid Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon General 01-18 JUN. ICC Champions Trophy England & Wales Sports 03 JUN. Footaball: 2017 UEFA Champions League Final in Cardiff stadium Cardiff Sports u 125th anniversary of the Liverpool Football Club was officially founded in England Sports u 2017 Epsom Derby Festival - Horse Race Sports 04 JUN. International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression Global u 100th anniversary of the Order of the British Empire was established by King George V u 100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded England General 05 JUN. Constitution Day Denmark u World Environment Day Global u 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Israel launched pre-emptive air strikes against Egypt and then pushed into Jordan and Syria. Egypt / Israel General 06 JUN. Sweden National Day General u 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Suez Canal by scuttling ships on both sides of it, Egypt General 07 JUN. 125th anniversary of American inventor Thomas Edison was granted US patents for an electric lighting system, an electrical distribution and metering system United States u 100th anniversary of the Lions Clubs International was founded Global 08 JUN. World Oceans Day Global u150th birth anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright, famous American architect United States General 09-11 JUN. Canadian Grand Prix 2017 Canada Sports 10 JUN. 40th anniversary of Apple Computer released the Apple II – the first personal computer to feature colour graphics United States General

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13-16 JUN. Extreme Sports: Summer X Games Minnesota Sports 14 JUN. World Blood Donor Day Global u 100th birth anniversary of Atle Selberg, award-winning Norwegian-born American mathematician. Known for his work in analytic number theory Global 15 JUN. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day General 15-18 JUN. US Open - Golf Erin Hills, Wisconsin Sports 16 JUN. 100th birth anniversary of Irving Penn, American photographer.

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16 JUN. 40th anniversary of the computer technology company Oracle Corporation was founded in Santa Clara, California United States 16-20 JUN. Royal Ascot - Horse Racing Ascot Sports 16-30 JUN. Football: 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Poland Sports 17 JUN. Iceland Independence Day General u World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought Global u 50th anniversary of China successfully tested its first hydrogen bomb, becoming the fourth country to develop a thermonuclear weapon China 17-27 JUN. Sailing: America’s Cup Bermuda Bermuda Sports 17 JUN. 02 July 2017 Football: Confederations Cup Russia Russia Sports 19 JUN. Father’s Day Global 20 JUN. World Refugee Day Global 23 JUN. National Day (Birthday of Grand Duchess Charlotte) Luxembourg u United Nations Public Service Day Global u International Widow’s Day Global

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26 JUN.Madagascar Independence Day General u International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking Global u International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Global 26 JUN. - 23 JUL. Cricket: ODI World Cup for Women 2017 England Sports 27 JUN. Djibouti Independence Day 27 June 2017 50th anniversary of the world’s first ATM (cash machine) went into operation at Barclays Bank in Enfield, north London U. K. 9 JUN. Seychelles Independence Day 29 JUN. 50th death anniversary of Jayne Mansfield, award-winning American stage and film actress. One of

Hollywood’s leading blonde bombshells of the 1950s Entertainment 29 JUN. 25th death anniversary of Mohammad Boudiaf, President of Algeria 29JUN. 10th anniversary of Apple released the first iPhone U. S. 30 JUN. Congo Independence Day u 100th birth anniversary of Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, Grammy Award-winning American singer, dancer, actress, entertainer and civil rights activist Entertainment 30 JUN. 80th anniversary of the 999 emergency telephone service went into operation in London – the first such service in the world United Kingdom 30 JUN. - 02 JUL. Austrian Grand Prix 2017 Sports

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20-23 JUL. Golf: British Open Royal England Sports 21 JUL.Ascension to the Throne of King Leopold I, Belgium General u 200th birth anniversary of Sir John Gilbert, British artist, illustrator and engraver. Known as ‘the Scott of painting’ England General 21-23 JUL. Hungary Hungarian Grand Prix Sports 23 JUL. Egypt Revolution Day General 24 JUL. 150th birth anniversary of E. F. Benson, British novelist, short story writer, biographer and memoirist England General 25 JUL. 60th anniversary of Tunisia proclaims Republic 26 JUL. Liberia Independence Day General

u Maldives Independence Day 27 JUL. 100th death anniversary of Emil Theodor Kocher, pioneering Swiss surgeon. Winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the thyroid gland Switzerland General

28 JUL. Peru Independence Day u World Hepatitis Day Global 30 JUL. Throne Day (accession of King Mohammed VI to the throne) Morocco u Vanuatu Independence Day u International Day of Friendship u World Day against Trafficking in Persons 28-30 JUL. German Grand Prix 2017 Sports

31 JUL. 150th birth anniversary of S. S. Kresge, American merchant who founded a chain of discount stores which later became Kmart

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driver Michael Schumacher won the Belgian Grand Prix –the first of his record 91 Formula One wins Germany General 31 AUG. Kyrgyzstan Independence Day u Malaysia 60th Independence Day u Trinidad and Tobago General Independence Day u 20th death anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales in a car crash in the Place de l’Alma underpass in Paris, France U. K. u Arafat Day UAE/Gulf

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24 SEP. - 01 OCT. The World Rowing Championship 2017 Sarasota Sports 27 SEP. World Tourism Day Global 27 SEP. World Heart Day Global 28 SEP. World Rabies Day Global 28 SEP. - 01 OCT. Golf: Presidents Cup New Jersey Sports 29 SEP. - 01 OCT. Singapore Grand Prix 2017 Sports 30 SEP. Botswana Independence Day

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railway system was nationalised and taken over by the United States Railroad Administration, Tokyo Japan 30 DEC. 90th anniversary of the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line opened in Japan. It was the first underground railway line in Asia Japan u 70th anniversary of King Michael of Romania was forced to abdicate and the country became a communist republic 31 DEC. New Year’s Eve Global

NINO JOSE HEREDIA

DAN ZAKROCZEMSKI

ADOR T. BUSTAMANTE

MARTIN GEE

LUIS VAZQUEZ

ELLEN WEINSTEIN

Studied illustration and fine art at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Awards and recognition include: Society for News Design, New York Associated Press, Sunday Magazine Awards, Communication Arts, and Society of Illustrators.

Staff artist at The Buffalo News since 1998 facebook.com/daniel.zakroczemski coroflot.com/ddzkro Contact: dzakroczemski@buffnews.com / (716)345-0092 danielzakroczemski.com

Ador T. Bustamante is a graphic designer/Illustrator currently working for Xpress editorial since 2005. He has also co-worked with several titles in the company: Aquarius, Wheels, Property weekly, For Him andTabloid !. Over the years, he received a couple of recognitions from SND Award of Excellence and World press cartoon as well as Best Cartoon illustration from Dubai Chamber of Commerce. Mostly handling page designs and art direction he manages to find time doing illustrations for magazines and broadsheet features.

He graduated bachelor of Fine Arts and majored in Advertising and worked for several years in that field, it never stopped him from devoting time to do personal work. Although schooled in design as well as the traditional arts, he never stopped perfecting his craft in Illustration and comic art. https://www.behance.net/adorbus

Martin Gee is a Senior Art Director at TIME and freelance illustrator. His (partial) path of destruction includes The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune and House of Blues.

Recent clients include Entertainment Weekly, NPR, AARP, Variety, The Village Voice, Nautilus, Family Circle and The Washington Post. He has won an Emmy, awards from a few acronyms (SOI, SPD and SND) and a fondue set for presentation karaoke / improv. He enjoys everything Star Wars, building Lego robots and living the dream. http://ohmgee.com

Luis (Monterrey, 1974) was rise in the extremely visual culture of Mexico’s 80s: colorful, vibrant, influence, baroque, modernist industrial and Mexican and American pop art, sparkled with American tv, Japanese cartoons, spaghetti westerns and Vinyl albums; this mixture, that hold a bit of this and that, is reflected in his characters that are so apparent well know yet never seen.The natural inclination to express ideas through images became his way of living, drawing most of the time since childhood, pushed his experimentation in styles, at times so minimalistic, that a couple of lines produce a portrait; this constant doing, landed him as graphic artist for the most prestigious publishers in the north-east of Mexico, at a very young age and then took him to work across Mexico and USA for several newspapers, magazines, rock bands, Tv Channels, among others requesting his illustrations and artworks. http://www.luisvzz.net/

Ellen Weinstein was born and raised in New York City. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute and New York’s High School of Art and Design. Awards include American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Print’s Regional Design Annual, Society of Publication Designers, Society of News Designers and the Art Directors Club. She has judged numerous illustration competitions including Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2016, 2016 National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, AOI/World Illustration Awards, Society of Illustrators Annual exhibition, Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship and Society of Illustrators Zankel Scholarship. She’s featured in an eightpage article in the March/April 2013 issue of Communication Arts. Ellen’s work is also featured in Illustration Now 5! by Taschen.

Ellen exhibits her work in local New York galleries as well as galleries in the US and Italy. www.ellenweinstein.com

NURI DUCASSI

KADIR ÖZMEN

JULIE M. ELMAN

EDUARDO BAPTISTÃO

RAMCHANDRA BABU

Nuri Ducassi is a cuban-born art director, designer and illustrator. She has worked as art director, designer and illustrator at El Nuevo Herald, The San Jose Mercury News, The Miami Herald, The Montreal Gazette and The Toronto Star. After three years as AME design at the Star, she continues to work as their creative director for print from her Florida base.

She has taught at The pointer Institute, in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

She has been recognized by SND as a designer and illustrator in multiple occasions and has twice received the highest honor in Canadian journalism the NNAs.

Kadir Özmen is a graphic artist. He was born in 1986, Bursa/Turkey. He graduated from art school with master degree in infographic design . He does newspaper pages designs, magazine pages designs, illustrations and infographics. He participated so many workshops with Fernando Baptista, Juan Velasco.. He won so many national and international awards.

Julie M. Elman has been illustrating people’s fears since 2012. She lives in Athens, Ohio, where she teaches design at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. Before moving to Athens to teach, Elman had worked as a designer, picture editor and photojournalist in the newspaper industry for 15 years. www.julie-elman.com

Eduardo Baptistão was born in São Paulo. Graduated in Advertising from Cásper Líbero University in 1988. He has been an illustrator in the publishing market since 1985, when published his first work on Folha de São Paulo. He has collaborated with publications such as Jornal da Tarde,Vogue, Vip, Who, Sexy, Playboy, Scoreboard, among others. He has been an illustrator of Estadão since 1991 and collaborator of Carta Capital, Veja and Época Negócios Magazines.

Five-time winner of the HQMix Trophy as best Caricaturista, won other important prizes in the Brazil (as the International Humor Salon of Piracicaba and the Carioca Salon of Humor, among others) and abroad (World Press Cartoon, from Portugal, and Tehran International Cartoon Biennial, from Iran, where he also later served as a jury). There are three published books of Eduardo’ caricatures. http://baptistao.zip.net/

Ramchandra Babu, senior illustrator and Feature page designer at the daily in Dubai, served as a features and illustration judge at the prestigious Society for News Design competition in Syracuse University, N.Y.,—a first from the region— in 2008. A year earlier, he received the silver award from SND, another first in the region. Since 2007, Babu has received SND Awards of Excellence every year for five years. He has also won several awards from WAN-IFRA and Malofiej. He works with the news team to create information graphics, illustrations and cartoons. For four years since 2000, Ramchandra Babu was the designer and illustrator of the country’s leading Arabic language newspaper Al Bayan. There he created caricatures and portraits of political and business figures in the Arab world. Prior to joining the Newspaper, he was the art director of Your Health magazine. Ramachandra lives and works in Dubai. www.baburam.com

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FERNANDO CARVALL

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NINO JOSE HEREDIA

I am a visual journalist, illustrator, designer, and art for wellbeing practitioner. That last bit of work is new. It’s very joyful using the making of artwork as a vehicle to help people feel better. I continue working in newspapers and have just designed a startup called the North State Journal where photojournalism plays a key role. SND gave me a Lifetime Achievement Award a few years ago, I’m ever so appreciative of it. http://www.deborah-withey.com/

Fernando Carvall, was born in Sao Paulo (Brazil). He is a graduated in fine arts at FAAP in Fine Arts and postgraduate in animation by SENAC. He collaborates as a cartoonist and illustrator for the biggest brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo since 1990 and Valor Econômico since 2011. He also collaborated as illustrator for publications such as Abril, Globo, Casa Amarela, Saraiva, Moderna and Brasil among others and with SESC and MTV. Lecturer at SENAC Visual Communication Faculty in Sao Paulo, Multimeios at PUC and European Institute of Design. Curator of the exhbition Imagen and Violencia, Images of Amnesty, Belmonte 100 Years, In the Spirit of Will Eisner, 100 Years of Fashion, among others. Carvall served as a judge in the International Salon of Humor of Piracicaba and the Cultural Map of Culture’ secretary of state.

He was judge of the International Salon of Humor of Piracicaba and of the Cultural Map of the Secretary of Culture State. http://www.estudiosaci.com.br

Edel Rodriguez is a Cuban American artist whose work is regularly published by some of the world’s top publications, such at TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker and Der Spiegel. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Op Ed page and has exhibited internationally with shows in The United States, Europe and Latin America. In 1994, Rodriguez graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and later earned an MFA at Hunter College in Manhattan. He has illustrated over a hundred magazine covers, created numerous book covers for clients such as Simon & Schuster and Peguin Random House, and has created advertising campaigns for clients such as Nespresso, Ray Ban, and Chanel. . His work has received numerous awards from The Art Director’s Club and The Society of Illustrators, and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. www.edelodriguez.com

I am Fê, illustrator and children’s books writer. Currently working as illustrators for editorial publications in Brazil and book illustrators for children literature. I received the Azorean Prize for Illustration of Children’s Literature -2006 (Secretary of Culture of Porto Alegre.

In October 2011, I released my first illustrated book written by me, “The Rebbe who only spoke yes. “- Editora Larousse, currently edited by Editora Papagaio. www.feilustrador.com

Im Nino Jose Heredia, from Danao City, Cebu Philippines. I finished my Fine Arts degree major in advertising at University of San Carlos, Cebu. Currently working as an illustrator in Gulf News.